What elections are in the United States in 2022?

(CNN Spanish) — This 2022 the midterm elections will be held in the United States, elections that are held every two years (or every half of the presidential term) and are crucial for the direction that the country will take not only because the control of the Republican parties is redefined and Democrat in Congress, also because they are considered a kind of referendum on the presidency of Joe Biden.

Also 36 states will elect new governors, which could change the political map of the country.

At the heart of these midterm elections is undoubtedly the economic uncertainty stemming from high inflation caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine combined with exhaustion from the coronavirus pandemic. The issue of abortion has also fully entered the campaigns after the Supreme Court ruling that annulled Roe vs. Wade and leaving this right in the hands of state law. There is, of course, the immigration issue and a Donald Trump who contemplates a possible return to the White House, laying the foundations for his support of some candidates in the Republican primaries.

Parliamentary election

A third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be renewed on November 8 in the midterm elections. Or to put it in concrete numbers: there are 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate and 435 vacancies in the House of Representatives.

The Senate is now split, 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ vote breaking the tie. There are four Democrats running in the states Biden won in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and New Hampshire. Republicans have incumbents seeking re-election in Wisconsin and Florida, and are defending three open seats in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio.

In the House of Representatives, Republicans need to win five seats to gain control. If this happens, the Democratic Party would lose the majority it achieved in 2018, which it has maintained ever since, and which has allowed it since passing an impeachment or impeachment Donald Trump to create a select commission that investigates the assault on the Capitol by supporters of the former president.

Governors and local offices

Of the 50 states, there are currently 27 Republican Governors and 23 Democratic Governors. Of the 50 states, 36 are up for grabs this November, including several that could play a significant role in the 2024 election.

Beyond the gubernatorial race, the statewide races for secretary of state and attorney general will receive unprecedented attention as the battle over how the election is run heats up after the 2020 campaign.

Primary elections

The prelude to the midterm elections in the United States began last March with the Texas primaries, a process that will conclude more than 6 months later, on September 13, in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

In the primaries, voters decide who will be the Republican and Democratic candidates who will be contending for a seat or for re-election to the Senate and the House of Representatives in the general or midterm elections.

So far, these are the states that have held primary elections:

March 1: Texas

May 3: Indiana at Ohio

May 10: Nebraska at West Virginia

May 17: Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania

May 24: Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia

June 7: California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota

June 14: Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina

June 21: District of Columbia, Virginia

June 28: Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, Utah

And these are the states that primary elections are yet to be helduntil now:

July 19: Maryland

Aug. 2: Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington

4 de August: Tennessee

9 de agosto: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin

August 13: Hawaii

August 16: Alaska, Wyoming

August 23: Florida

Sept. 6: Massachussetts

September 13: Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island

With reporting from CNN’s Terence Burlij, Melissa Holzberg DePalo and Ethan Cohen

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